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Microsoft's Bing search engine is partnering with influence-rating service Klout to include Klout scores in Bing search results. Bing, which already includes LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter data in its search results, will incorporate Klout ratings when users search for people's names.

The Federal Trade Commission might advance against 24 search engines sent earlier letters suggesting unfair business practices. The FTC wrote to AOL, Bing, Google, Yahoo and the others for more information on how the search engines return results to consumers to clearly distinguish between sponsored and organic links. Now, months after the initial letters, "The FTC will look for blatant disregard," says Marc Roth, partner in the Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips law firm.

Three years after Klout launched its Perks program, which lets brands offer incentives to top influencers, more than a million rewards have been claimed across 400 separate campaigns. "I feel like Santa Claus with a million people getting Perks," said Klout CEO Joe Fernandez. Now the influence-rating service is expanding the program with a Quora-style Q-and-A service that lets brands reward influencers who discuss their products.

Any marshmallow Peeps left over from Easter celebrations can be used as an ingredient in a variety of dessert recipes that draw inspiration from savory dishes, Marina Koren writes. It's easy to whip up a Peep-ified Waldorf salad, a Peep soufflé, a Peep casserole or even a Peep ceviche, Koren writes.

Three-quarters of social media users say they incorporate hashtags into their postings, with about 71% of respondents saying they use hashtags chiefly on mobile devices, a RadiumOne study finds. Middle-aged social media users were less likely to use hashtags than younger users were, but still had a 44% usage rate.